CVE-2015-8839
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 2, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Apr 1, 2016
Description
Multiple race conditions in the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allow local users to cause a denial of service (disk corruption) by writing to a page that is associated with a different user's file after unsynchronized hole punching and page-fault handling.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1323577
- USN-3006-1vendor-advisory
- 1035455vdb-entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ea3d7209ca01da209cda6f0dea8be9cc4b7a933b
- USN-3005-1vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ea3d7209ca01da209cda6f0dea8be9cc4b7a933b
- RHSA-2017:2669vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20160401 Re: ext4 data corruption due to punch hole racesmailing-list
- 85798vdb-entry
- RHSA-2017:2077vendor-advisory
- USN-3007-1vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:1842vendor-advisory
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200609 [SECURITY] [DLA 2241-1] linux security updatemailing-list
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200610 [SECURITY] [DLA 2241-2] linux security updatemailing-list
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